Mario Conde Mystery

The Mario Conde Mystery series is popular novel series written by the award winning journalist and novelist from Cuba named Leonardo Padura. It consists of a total of 8 books, which were released between the years 1991 and 2013. All the books of this mystery series feature the lead character in the role of Mario Conde, who is depicted as a police inspector living in Havana, Cuba. Over the course of the series, Mario Conde is shown trying to overcome the obstacles in his path and solve the mysteries happening around him one after the other. The first book written and published in the series by Leonardo Padura is entitled ‘Havana Blue’. This book was released by the Bitter Lemon Press in the year 2007, after its first release in 1991. Author Padura has set the story of this book in Havana, Cuba, and has described the central characters as Mario Conde, Rafael Morin, and Tamara. At the start of the book, Lieutenant Condo is depicted as suffering from a nasty hangover of New Year’s Eve. In spite of being the mid-weekend and his terrible hangover, the police department asks Mario Conde to investigate about the mysterious vanishing of Rafael Morin. Rafael is known to be a high level business manager working for the Cuban nomenclature. Because of his high status, the Cuban government wants him to be found as early as possible. Mario Conde knew Rafael Morin from the time when they were students. He has his image in his mind as that of a brilliant, good looking, and a reliable comrade, who always achieved whatever he wished to have.